Tagged: therapy

Reporting From: 4th European Congress on Hematologic Malignancies, Paris 22-24 February, 2008 BART BARLOGIE, University of Arkansas, Little Rock A treatment known as “total therapy” could cure many patients with multiple myeloma, conference-goers have just heard. The targeted

ROBERT MAYER, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston One of the leading participants at the 2008 Gastrointestinal Cancers Symposium, Robert Mayer, gave Peter Goodwin his assessment of some of the emerging new therapies being announced, for colorectal, liver and

JOSE BASELGA, Vall d’Hebron Hospital, Barcelona RAD001, a drug targeted at the mTor pathway, has been combined with letrozole in a randomised phase II trial in breast cancer. The investigators saw more responses in the experimental arm, and

REFERENCE: American Society of Hematology Annual Meeting, December 8-11 2007, AtlantaZAKARI ALIYU, Howard University, Washington DC Nigeria has the highest incidence of sickle cell anemia in the world, with over 150,000 children being born each year with